Katy Henriksen
@soundoffkaty.bsky.social
culture obsessed journalist :: publicist at Riot Act Media :: live music producer
humanity is not an algorithm /// art is labor /// trans lives matter
Host of Sound Off (((on music challenging the status quo))) 🎧 www.katyhenriksen.com
humanity is not an algorithm /// art is labor /// trans lives matter
Host of Sound Off (((on music challenging the status quo))) 🎧 www.katyhenriksen.com
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Katy Henriksen
@soundoffkaty.bsky.social
· Jan 26
Hiya I'm a long time music journalist with the Sound Off podcast on music challenging the status quo, run music PR via Riot Act Media & founded the Trillium Salon Series to redefine the live music experience. I once did a TEDx Talk on How To Feel More Human By Connecting Through Music. #music
I finally get all the outie references now that I've blown through season one of Severance.
April 29, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I finally get all the outie references now that I've blown through season one of Severance.
I have news 🗞️🗞️🗞️ I've joined the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as the features editor. Full circle moment, since my first journalism job was editing features for my college newspaper!
April 22, 2025 at 9:07 PM
I have news 🗞️🗞️🗞️ I've joined the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette as the features editor. Full circle moment, since my first journalism job was editing features for my college newspaper!
❤️🔥 New episode dears ❤️🔥 this time with the joyfully DIY '90s band Tsunami, whose music just received a glorious @numerogroup.bsky.social box set treatment!
Listen to Sound Off with Katy Henriksen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧🎧🎧
Listen to Sound Off with Katy Henriksen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧🎧🎧
April 18, 2025 at 1:05 PM
❤️🔥 New episode dears ❤️🔥 this time with the joyfully DIY '90s band Tsunami, whose music just received a glorious @numerogroup.bsky.social box set treatment!
Listen to Sound Off with Katy Henriksen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧🎧🎧
Listen to Sound Off with Katy Henriksen wherever you get your podcasts 🎧🎧🎧
If you're waiting for the right time, don't 🌹
April 18, 2025 at 2:43 AM
If you're waiting for the right time, don't 🌹
Reposted by Katy Henriksen
Sound Off with @soundoffkaty.bsky.social is back and she's got @lizpelly.bsky.social talking about her book Mood Machine! Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Liz Pelly on Mood Machine
Podcast Episode · Sound Off with Katy Henriksen · 03/27/2025 · 20m
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April 8, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Sound Off with @soundoffkaty.bsky.social is back and she's got @lizpelly.bsky.social talking about her book Mood Machine! Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l...
Ilanca's cover of Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game" is the only version besides the original that I have fallen for.
April 4, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Ilanca's cover of Chris Isaac's "Wicked Game" is the only version besides the original that I have fallen for.
Sometimes a person whose journalism you admire greatly for a very, very long time ends up publishing a book about the topic that got you hooked on their work. And sometimes I get to interview that person, as is the case with Liz Pelly, who is the season premiere guest on my podcast Sound Off ❤️🔥
March 31, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Sometimes a person whose journalism you admire greatly for a very, very long time ends up publishing a book about the topic that got you hooked on their work. And sometimes I get to interview that person, as is the case with Liz Pelly, who is the season premiere guest on my podcast Sound Off ❤️🔥
Reposted by Katy Henriksen
Just out: my ❤️🔥 conversation with @lizpelly.bsky.social, who just released the essential book Mood Machine.
She kicks off the new season of Sound Off: on music challenging the status quo.
She kicks off the new season of Sound Off: on music challenging the status quo.
Sound Off with Katy Henriksen
Latest episode
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March 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just out: my ❤️🔥 conversation with @lizpelly.bsky.social, who just released the essential book Mood Machine.
She kicks off the new season of Sound Off: on music challenging the status quo.
She kicks off the new season of Sound Off: on music challenging the status quo.
Just out: my ❤️🔥 conversation with @lizpelly.bsky.social, who just released the essential book Mood Machine.
She kicks off the new season of Sound Off: on music challenging the status quo.
She kicks off the new season of Sound Off: on music challenging the status quo.
Sound Off with Katy Henriksen
Latest episode
fanlink.tv
March 28, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Just out: my ❤️🔥 conversation with @lizpelly.bsky.social, who just released the essential book Mood Machine.
She kicks off the new season of Sound Off: on music challenging the status quo.
She kicks off the new season of Sound Off: on music challenging the status quo.
I started a new job today that required me to be in an office. The last time I started a new job *at a physical office* was in 2011.
March 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
I started a new job today that required me to be in an office. The last time I started a new job *at a physical office* was in 2011.
The way the redbuds in bloom break my wild April heart
March 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
The way the redbuds in bloom break my wild April heart
Sade, mango ginger tea & the abyss
March 20, 2025 at 2:43 AM
Sade, mango ginger tea & the abyss
Took a two hour hike with my boyfriend. He cooked a butternut ginger soup for dinner. This day felt like perfection.
March 17, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Took a two hour hike with my boyfriend. He cooked a butternut ginger soup for dinner. This day felt like perfection.
The new Circuit des Yeux is the exact energy I need right now.
Can't wait to interview Haley tomorrow
Can't wait to interview Haley tomorrow
March 16, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The new Circuit des Yeux is the exact energy I need right now.
Can't wait to interview Haley tomorrow
Can't wait to interview Haley tomorrow
At the point in life where I want to quit all social media and chuck my smartphone into the abyss.
March 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
At the point in life where I want to quit all social media and chuck my smartphone into the abyss.
Having been a renter all my life until buying my first home last fall, I must say that paying a mortgage is much more satisfactory.
March 15, 2025 at 9:38 PM
Having been a renter all my life until buying my first home last fall, I must say that paying a mortgage is much more satisfactory.
The spring peepers are back. I'm in heaven.
March 14, 2025 at 1:47 AM
The spring peepers are back. I'm in heaven.
I'm having an Ah dip it, dip it real good party & am taking it so seriously that I just made a spreadsheet for it.
March 13, 2025 at 6:35 PM
I'm having an Ah dip it, dip it real good party & am taking it so seriously that I just made a spreadsheet for it.
My national pastime is crying while listening to records.
March 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
My national pastime is crying while listening to records.
Today in radical acts, I started a ginger bug. The smallest things matter.
March 11, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Today in radical acts, I started a ginger bug. The smallest things matter.
Reposted by Katy Henriksen
Not the time for arguments a time for solidarity
March 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Not the time for arguments a time for solidarity
My birthday is coming up & I haven't done a housewarming party yet. Decided it's time for the "Ah, Dip It, Dip It Real Good" party 🥳
March 2, 2025 at 5:19 PM
My birthday is coming up & I haven't done a housewarming party yet. Decided it's time for the "Ah, Dip It, Dip It Real Good" party 🥳
It's been really really really hard to focus on anything considering the state of things. So it feels like a supreme accomplishment that I finished my Sound Off with Katy Henriksen episode with @lizpelly.bsky.social today 🤸🏻💪🏻❤️🔥
To hear as soon as it drops subscribe wherever you get your podcasts 🪩🪩🪩
To hear as soon as it drops subscribe wherever you get your podcasts 🪩🪩🪩
March 1, 2025 at 10:32 PM
It's been really really really hard to focus on anything considering the state of things. So it feels like a supreme accomplishment that I finished my Sound Off with Katy Henriksen episode with @lizpelly.bsky.social today 🤸🏻💪🏻❤️🔥
To hear as soon as it drops subscribe wherever you get your podcasts 🪩🪩🪩
To hear as soon as it drops subscribe wherever you get your podcasts 🪩🪩🪩
I have new goals. I don't want to ever go "viral." Death to the machine of big tech that's wreaking havoc on us all. Dreaming of publishing only in print again. Long live zines - who wants to subscribe?
February 26, 2025 at 12:10 AM
I have new goals. I don't want to ever go "viral." Death to the machine of big tech that's wreaking havoc on us all. Dreaming of publishing only in print again. Long live zines - who wants to subscribe?
This article I wrote for @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social a few years ago about what we lose when we lose New Sounds seems relevant with the announcement that May 31 could be their last show:
Humanity is Not an Algorithm: What We Lose with WNYC’s Cancellation of New Sounds
Katy Henriksen considers the differences between curated radio programs and streaming culture in the wake of WNYC's decision to cancel New Sounds.
icareifyoulisten.com
February 25, 2025 at 9:22 PM
This article I wrote for @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social a few years ago about what we lose when we lose New Sounds seems relevant with the announcement that May 31 could be their last show: